Related Meetings and Conferences

25-27 June 2009
David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Hosted by Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic
For more information, visit www.8thbipolar.org
or contact bipolarconference@upmc.edu

Running in alternate years to the ISBD Biennial Meetings, the ICBD provides a space for membership and administrative meetings of the ISBD.

The ASBD has announced that the fourth conference of the Australasian Society for Bipolar Disorders will be held in Brisbane from 22nd to 24th October 2009 at the Sofitel Hotel.

This conference will build on the success of previous conferences and will focus on the latest developments and research in bipolar disorders. The theme of the conference is Stabilizing Mood: 60 years of progress, to highlight the 60th anniversary of Dr. John Cade’s groundbreaking paper on the anti-manic effects of lithium carbonate. Internationally renowned keynote speakers have been selected to cover developments in biology, psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy of bipolar disorders. The conference will provide a forum for new research in bipolar disorders as well as a program for consumers and carers. Awards for outstanding research, young researcher and posters will be presented by the ASBD. The conference should again prove to be the premier conference on bipolar disorders in Australasia with relevance to researchers, clinicians, mmental health trainees, and consumers and their families. The organizing committee looks forward to welcoming you all to Brisbane in October 2009. For further details visit www.asbd2009.com.

The Norwegian Chapter of the ISBD will hold its next meeting as a Satellite Meeting at the Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Psychiatric Association in Bergen, Norway on the 17th of March 2009 with Michael Berk and Hagop Akiskal as invited guests.